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ADDRESS 



BOARD OF MANAGERS 



Maryland State Colonization Society, 



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The Board of Managers of the Maryland State Co- 
lonization Society have deemed it proper, at this time, 
to anticipate the usual period of their Annual Report: 
and in the address which they now submit to the mem- 
bers of the Society, and the friends of Colonization 
generally, they propose to state particularly what they 
have done in the execution of the trust reposed in them, 
with a view of obtaining that co-operation and assist- 
ance which are essential to the successful prosecution 
of their labors. 

It is already known that the Maryland State Coloni- 
zation Society was formed in January, 1831, auxiliary 
to the objects of the American Colonization Society ; 
but differing from all other auxiliaries, inasmuch as its 
constitution required, that the funds raised in ]\raryland 
should be appropriated, by the Society, within the lim- 
its of the state. Immediately after its organization, an 
agent was appointed to form auxiliaries and disseminate 
information upon the subject. In October, 1831, the 
Orion was fitted out by the State Society in Baltimore, 
and sailed for Monrovia, with Dr. James Ilalland thirty- 
one emigrants. At the December session of the Le- 
gislature succeeding, the state embarked nobly in the 



great cause, and made its munificent donation of two 
hundred thousand dollars for the transportation and re- 
ception of emigrants in Africa; and the state society 
was incorporated with ample powers to accomplish the 
ends which it had in view. 

It was early foreseen that a difficulty would arise in 
the limited capacity of the present settlements to re- 
ceive emigrants from Mar viand to the extent that, here- 
after, might be desirable. The parent society, acting 
for the entire Union, was bound to apportion the num- 
ber of emigrants, that Liberia was capable of accommo- 
dating, among the applicants from the different states; 
when, if the quota of Maryland should not be equal 
to her demand, a check might be given to emigration, 
at times when it might be most prejudicial. Indeed, 
a very small increase of the number of emigrants would 
have produced this effect during the present year. — 
With a view, therefore, to this anticipated emergency, 
the state society determined to form a new colony, 
which, increasing in its capacity to receive in the same 
proportion that the spirit of emigration increased at 
home, would be the means of placing the state beyond 
the reach of any circumstances over which it, or the 
state society, could have no control. 

There were reasons, besides that above mentioned, 
which particularh: moved the state society to under- 
take, by itself, the establishment of a new settlement, 
under its own auspices. It had so happened, that the 
present colony of Liberia had assumed rather a com- 
mercial character in the course of its brief, but valua- 
ble, existence. The wealth, that some of its settlers 
had acquired, was ov/ing to the trade which they car- 
ried on with the natives and with the vessels that fre- 
quented their harbor. It was the desire of the Mary- 
land State Society to see agriculture made the object 
of primary importance, — not only as placing the means 
of their own sustenance in the hands of the colonists, 
'iind rendering them independent of remote places or 
ihe native inhabitants for food; but because nine-tenths, 



^f not a far greater proportion, of the ♦emigrants from 
''Hhis country would make better farmers than traders: — 
!!rt)esides which, instead of having all their bad feelings 
^brought into play by the artifices of a petty native traffic, 
' engendering vicious habits by the intervals of idleness 
_that it afforded, the emigrants, finding employment, in 
agricultural pursuits, from the moment of their arrival, 
and occupied with healthful la])or, would have their 
minds in the best state to receive and preserve those 
sentiments of religion and morality, which it was the 
wish of the state society should form the character of 
the population. It was believed, also, that an agricul- 
tural community, spreading itself to the interior, would 
not only present better examples to the surrounding 
heathen, whom it was designed to bring to Gospel light, 
but would afford greater facilities for a rapidly increas- 
ing emigration from this country, than could be afforded 
by trading towns, however prosperous they might be. 
Of the soundness of these views, the Board of Mana- 
gers had ample assurance, in the endeavors of the parent 
society to introduce an agricultural spirit into Liberia. 
There was another object, which the board of man- 
agers thought of much importance, and which they pro- 
posed to combine with emigration from Maryland; and 
which could b€st be effected at the commencement of 
a settlement, and for which exclusive control was 
necessary. This was the establishment of the tempe- 
rance principle, as a fundamental one — prohibiting any 
person from leaving Maryland for Africa, who would 
not first agree to forbear the use of ardent spirit, except 
in case of sickness; and holding any person ineligible 
to office in the colonial government, who either used 
or trafficked in it. An opportunity was offered of found- 
ing a nation upon the principle of temperance, and the 
j board of manageis thought it wise to lay hold of it. 
I It must not for a moment be supposed, that, in de- 
termining to form a new settlement, under the auspices 
of the state society and subject to its control, the board 
of managers intended either rivalry or opposition, in 



the remotest degree, to the American Colonization So- 
ciety. On the contrary, the board of managers held 
in too high esteem the labors of the fathers of coloniza- 
tion — they found themselves profiting by their experi- 
ence too often, to be influenced by any other motive 
than the ardent desire to co-operate in the most efficient 
manner in the great object of their labors. This, it 
was believed, after the experience of fifteen years, 
since the founding of the institution, could be best 
effected by each state's undertaking the scheme of co- 
lonization within its confines. This had been done by 
the Maryland society in 1831, with results that never 
could have been anticipated, under the system, which 
imposed upon the board at Washington duties, in regard 
to informing the people, that could only be accom- 
plished by state societies, not existing for the collection 
of funds only, but interested in the application of those 
funds for the immediate benefit of the contributors. It 
was also believed, that the entire success of colonization 
in Maryland would do more to enlist the whole country 
in the cause, than the removal of twice the number of 
emigrants in the same period to Africa, taken indiscrim- 
inately wherever offered throughout the Union. That 
Maryland might be made anon-slaveholding state, was 
admitted; and the board of managers, in determining to 
establish a new settlement, felt satisfied that they were 
adopting the best, if not the only means, by which, un- 
der existing circumstances, it could be accomplished. 
The next question that presented itself was the selec- 
tion of a site for the new colony; and, after the most 
full and careful deliberation, the Board of Managers 
selected Cape Palmas, or its immediate vicinity. The 
coast of Africa, after pursuing a southeast direction from 
the. Rio Grande, passing by Sierra Leone, Cape Mount, 
Monrovia, Grand Bassa, and Cestos river, here turns 
to the east-northeast, towards Cape Three Points, 
the mouth of the Niger, and Fernando Po in the Bight 
of Biafra. The return voyage from Cape Palmas, to 
the United States or Europe, is at all times easy, the 



trade winds being constant and iep;ular from the north- 
west: but from the leeward, or eastward, towards the 
mouth of the Niger, out of the reach of the trades, 
the prevalence of calms and currents, renders a return 
to the windward round Cape Palmas extremely long 
and tedious. The position of Cape Palmas, alone, is, 
therefore, sufficient to make it one day, a most impor- 
portant commercial depot. All the vessels, destined 
for the Niger, must pass by it on their way from Eu- 
rope or America; and the delay and uncertainty of a 
voyage to the east of it will, no doubt, in many cases, 
make it the place of deposit or exchange for European 
or American manufactures, the further transportation 
of which will either be, by land, towards the interior, 
or, by the coasting trade of the colony, to the great 
river of central Africa. 

The temperature at Cape Palmas is about the same 
as at Pvlonrovia. In point of health, it is believed to 
possess superior advantages. Dr. Hall, the physician, 
who went out in the Orion, and who resided for up- 
wards of two years at Monrovia, explored the coast 
from that place to Cape Lahou, considerably to the east 
of Cape Palmas, and stated the fact, from his own ex- 
perience and observation, that a vessel rarely entered 
Monrovia roads from the windward about Rio Grande, 
Nunez or Pongas, in a liealthy condition; while, on 
the contrary, a case of sickness as rarely came to his 
knowledge on board vessels returning from the leeward 
about Cape Palmas. Captain Spence, an English gen- 
tleman, who has for fourteen years maintained a set- 
tlement at the mouth of the Cestos river, between 
Bassa and Cape Palmas, informed Dr. Hall, "that dur- 
ing his long residence there, he had often had occa- 
sion to employ on shore masters of vessels and their 
crews direct from Europe, and that they had frequently 
remained on shore for weeks, and even months; and 
that during the whole time, but few cases of disease 
had occurred among foreigners, which could in any 
degree be attributed to the climate." At the present 

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settlements, the clanger to foreigners from remaining o!1 
shore a single night is well known. These facts may 
be accounted for upon an inspection of the map of 
Africa, where it will be seen, that from the Senegal, 
north of Cape Verd, to the St. Pauls, in the present 
colony, the country is intersected w^th rivers rising 
far in the interior — as the Gambia, the Domingo, Rio 
Grande, Nunez, Pongas, Kabba, Sierra Leone, Kara- 
manka and Pissou, — all bringing to the ocean vast 
quantities of alluvial deposit, to create and give rank 
luxuriance to the mangrove swamps, the supposed pro- 
lific cause of disease, — :while from the St. Pauls, round 
by Cape Palmas, to the Assinee, near Cape Three 
Points, no rivers of any length appear upon the map. 
One of the greatest advantages, however, next to 
its healthiness, that Cape Palmas possesses, is the fa- 
cility with which agriculture may be pursued there. 
"All the rice," says Dr. Hall, in a letter dated July, 
1832, ''now used by the few emigrants on hand, and by 
most of the old colonists, is shipped from Cape Pal- 
mas. Our schooner is hardly able to supply the de- 
mand, and in fact does not." "To give some idea of the 
comparative importance of Monrovia and Cape Pal- 
mas," continues Dr. Hall, "1 will just say, that the ob- 
ject of my last voyage down the coast, was the pur- 
chase of rice. We used all exertions, at every town, 
between Monrovia and Cape Palmas, to accomplish our 
object, but a sufficiency of rice to support a crew could 
not be obtained on our passage down. We arrived at 
Cape Palmas, and in three days received on board two 
hundred bushels. We then weighed anchor, and 
dropped about fifty miles to the leeward, and received 
two hundred bushels more. While lying at these two 
places, we saw and spoke two Spanish vessels, an 
English ship and brig, and an American barque, all of 
which were filling with rice — and, in fact, no vessel, 
homeward bound, passes the Cape without receiving 
a few hundred bushels of rice, either for this port, 
(Monrovia) Cape Verds, or the West India Islands." 



^'The face of the country," continues Dr. Hali, ^'is 
entirely different from that around Monrovia. As far 
as the eye can reach, it is open, and in a great degree 
cultivated; and no }3art is covered with that dense, 
impenetrable undergrowth so prejudicial to agricul- 
ture and extensive inland communication, as with us 
(at Monrovia.) 

*^As regards the advantages of locating the town 
itself, I think there are superior at Cape Palmas to any 
other section of the coast. At the southernmost point, 
where the promontory is connected with the main 
land, is located Cape Town, as it is called. This over- 
looks the south anchorage or roads- From this point 
the Cape runs in a northwest direction parallel with 
the windward coast, terminating very abruptly in al- 
most perpendicular inaccessible cliffs, forming between 
this and the main a fine secure bay, where all small 
vessels w^hich the Colony may possess, can have, in 
the worst seasons, a perfectly secure harbor. A small 
river empties into the bay at its head or eastern extre- 
mity. 

"I should advise," says Dr. Hall, "the purchase of 
the whole of this cape, including the town, bay, and 
as much of the surrounding country as practicable. — 
The town would serve well for emigrants, until they 
could have time and means to erect a more suitable 
one. The highest point, or extremity of the promon- 
tory, is cleared, but not occupied. It is about one 
hundred feet above the level of the sea, and a small 
fortification here, with a few good guns, would effec- 
tually command the bay, the roads, the native town, 
and, in fact, the wliole surrounding country, within 
cannon shot. vShould the natives wish to retain their 
town, still the point ought to be secured and fortified, 
as it would completely cover the settlement, w^hich 
would, in that case, be made on the opposite side of 
the bay, at the mouth of the river." 

In another part of his letter, after speaking of seve- 
ral points between Monrovia and Cape Palmas, Dr. 



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Hall says: ''But the object paramount to every other 
connected with the Society, on this side of the Atlan- 
tic, appears to have been entirely overlooked; I mean 
the purchase of Cape Palmas." 

The account thus given by Dr. Hall, from his own 
observations, is fully confirmed by the testimony of 
other persons, who have either visited Cape Pal mas, 
or who have made it a subject of inquiry from traders 
on the coast. Indeed, for five years, Cape Palmas has 
been spoken of as a fit site for a new settlement, and 
during that time every opportunity had been taken to 
obtain information respecting it; and now, when the 
Board of Managers find it necessary to make a selec- 
tion, its position, agricultural advantages, health, soil, 
and climate, constitute the best reasons for their choice 
of it. Its commercial advantages, also, are important; 
for although agriculture will be the object of peculiar 
solicitude, yet commerce will have every facility af- 
forded to it, and will secure that trade and constant 
intercourse with the United States, which will multiply 
the facilities of emigration to such a degree, that when 
the colony offers sufficient inducements, numbers of 
emigrants will, at their own cost, seek the shores of 
Africa, with the same eagerness, that the natives of Eu- 
rope, with far less reason to emigrate, now seek the 
shores of America. 

The site of the new colony having been thus fixed 
upon. Dr. liall, who had returned to this country, 
was selected as the first agent of the Board of Mana- 
gers in Africa. His knowledge of the territory in 
question; his acquaintance with the manners and cus- 
toms of the natives; his skill in the diseases of the 
country; and the high character, which he bore among 
all the emigrants in Liberia, recommended him strong- 
ly to the Board. He is now preparing for his depar- 
ture, with the first expedition this fall. 

The expedition will be made in a vessel, calculated 
to acccommodate comfortably from seventy to one bun- 



dred emigrants. About twenty-five of these will be 
taken from this country; and the remainder will be 
selected from among such of our already acclimated 
emigrants, in Liberia, as may be willing to remove. 
The vessel will take out the merchandize required to 
pay for the territory; arms and ammunition; provi- 
sions for six months; the frames of a store and agency 
house; tools; agricultural implements; in fact every 
thing that may be necessary to meet the wants of the 
emigrants on their arrival. After receiving, at Monro- 
via and Bassa, the settlers from those places, the ves- 
sel will proceed to Cape Palmas, and remain there un- 
til a stockade is erected, cannon mounted, &c, and the 
settlement made. Expedition will then follow expe- 
dition, as the capacity of the colony to receive them 
will justify. Every emigrant will receive his land 
immediately on his arrival, and every proper aid will 
be afforded him, in the first instance, to get it at once 
under cultivation. When the first settlement has be- 
come strong enough, another stockade will be built at 
a suitable distance, around which new farms will clus- 
ter; then another and another, radiating from a com- 
mon centre; the stockades being, as it were, the cita- 
dels, to which, as to the "stations", in the early set- 
tlement of America, the neighboring agriculturists may 
retreat, on any occasion for alarm. In this way, will 
the capacity of the colony to receive new emigrants, 
be rapidly increased; the agricultural habits of the 
colonists will be secured; opportunities for civilizing 
and christianizing the heathen will be afforded; and 
the cost to this country, for some time, of maintaining 
the new emigrants, until acclimated, will be materially 
diminished, if not wholly avoided. 

These are the plans of the Board of Managers, with 
regard to the settlement at Cape Palmas. They feel 
most truly gratified in being able, at this early date, to 
inform the Society, that the American Board of Mis- 
sions have so far approved the location, and the prin- 
ciples upon which the new settlement is to be made^ 



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as to have directed their first missionary to Africa to 
make an establishment at Cape Palmas, for the com- 
mencement of a system of missionary labor, which, 
while its more peculiar object will be the instruction 
of the heathen, will nevertheless exercise a most sa- 
lutary influence on the morals and habits of the colo- 
nists. 

There is another subject, connected with state colo- 
nization, which is here important to notice. It has 
been charged, again and again, against the general 
scheme, that its tendencies were to perpetuate slavery; 
and, at this moment, both in this country and in Eu- 
rope, there are those who stigmatize the labors of men 
like Finley, Caldwell, Harper, Ayres, Ashmun, Key, 
Gurley, Anderson and Randall, as leading to this end. 
Unfounded as is the charge, it has many believers. — 
The colonization law of Maryland is based upon a far 
diff"erent principle; for the immigration of slaves is ex- 
pressly prohibited, and the transportation of those who 
are emancipated is amply provided for. In accordance, 
therefore, with the general sentiment of the public, 
and anxious that colonization in the state should be re- 
lieved from the imputation put upon the cause, the re- 
solutions accompanying this address were unanimous- 
ly adopted, avowing that the extirpation of slavery in 
Maryland was the chief object of the society's exist- 
ence. The right of property in slaves was recognized 
by the laws of the country, and all their muniments 
clustered around it. It was admitted that it could only 
be touched by the voluntary action of those immediately 
interested in it. But the board of managers believed, 
that the time had nearly arrived when this action would 
take place in Maryland; and when it was determined 
to avow the extirpation of slavery in the state as an 
object worthy of every exertion, although it was with 
a confidence in success, yet it was with a full convic- 
tion that it could only be brought about, in the words 
of the resolutions, by "eiforts addressed to the under- 
standing and experience of the people, and by advo- 



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eating and supporting colonization as the best, truest 
and most efficient auxiliary of freedom, under existing 
circumstances." Any other course would be as incon- 
sistent with the feeling of the state, as injurious to the 
very class intended to be benefitted. 

The views of the board of managers extended still 
further, with reference to the general scheme of co- 
lonization. The system which they prefer, and which 
they suggest, in the hope of seeing it carried into effect, 
is one which gives to each state, what Maryland has 
already assumed, the sole management of colonization 
Avithin its confines — those states having emigrants to 
send to Liberia, sending them for such reasons as 
please them — those states having no emigrants for 
Africa, but Vvhich are willing to contribute their money 
to the cause of colonization, selecting for themselves 
the particular objects, or the peculiar views, connected 
with the subject, which they are most desirous to ad- 
vance, and contributing accordingly — it being a rule to 
avoid interfering, by v/ord or deed, with the subject of 
slavery in other states. When each state thus holds co- 
lonization in its own keeping, it will cease to be an 
object of dislike or apprehension to any one of them. 
It will no longer be the pretence for raising the cry of 
interference, on the part of the north, with the slavery 
of the south, which has already excited such angry 
feelings, and which threatened at one time to jeopardize 
the continuance of the Union itself. The philanthropy 
of the north will still have ample room for its best ef- 
forts under such a system. Maryland has avowed the 
principle which the north has long contended for, as 
the proper basis of colonization; and her state society, 
in its exertions to add another non-slaveholding state to 
the Union, will present as interesting an object to the 
friends of colonization northward, as has ever yet claim- 
ed their attention since the fust promulgation of the 
scheme. Other slaveholding states will follow the ex- 
ample of MarylltMd,and all the sooner for being let alone. 
Any attempt, on the part of the north, to procure the 



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avowal, in the parent society, of principles obnoxious to 
the south, could only succeed after a bitter contest, and 
would, if successful, be followed by the withdrawal 
of nearly all, if not all, the slaveholding states from 
any participation in the general design — while the suc- 
cess of the south in such a contest, would, perhaps, 
be followed by the north's withholding that assistance 
which it has heretofore so liberally afforded. vSeparate 
state action upon the subject, however, as in Maryland, 
will at once abate all irritating questions connected 
with the subject between the north and south, without 
losing a single friend to colonization; and to the system 
that secures this, coincident, as it will be, with the 
course pursued by Maryland, the board of managers 
will give their most hearty concurrence. 

The Board of Managers have thus stated their views 
and declared their plans; and they now call for aid from 
the members of the society throughout the state, and 
from the friends of colonization generally. Ample as 
is the endowment of the Legislature, it is limited in 
the objects of its application. To pay for the trans- 
portation of emigrants, and to provide for their recep- 
tion in Africa, are the duties of the managers of the 
state's fund. For the erection of schools, the supply- 
ing of teachers, the encouragement of agriculture, the 
defence and good government of the colony, and the 
many wants of a young people in a strange land — all 
these require, in the outset, funds, which philanthropy 
must furnish: — and, with a humble reliance for success 
upon the goodness of that Divine Being, who has 
watched over the infant settlement of Liberia, until it 
has become a shining proof of the practicability of co- 
lonization, the board of directors make their present 
appeal — not only in behalf of Maryland, but of Africa — 
not only for the removal of an evil from our country, 
but for the spread of civilization and the Gospel through 
a benighted land. 

On behalf of the Board of Manaorers, 

GEO. HOFFMAN, PresH. 



RESOLUTIONS 

OF THD 

Maryland State Colonization Society. 



April 30, 1833, 
At a meeting of the Board of Managers held this afternoon at 
the Colonization office, the following preamble and resolutions 
were read, discussed, amended, and adopted unanimously. 

Whereas, It is the desire of the Maryland State Colonization So- 
ciety, to hasten as far as they can, the arrival of the period when 
slavery shall cease to exist in Maryland; and whereas the society 
believe that this can best be done, by advocating and assisting the 
cause of colonization, wliich is considered as the safest^ the truest, 
and the most efficient auxiliary of freedom, under existing circum- 
stances; and whereas the cause of colonization, which has already 
produced great results, and from which so much it still anticipated, 
must depend in Maryland, upon the facilities afforded for the trans- 
portation and reception of emigrants on the coastof Africa, which 
can only be secured, to the necessary and desired extent, by the 
establishment of settlements in Africa, where there will be no re- 
straint upon emigration beyond the control of the state society; 
and whereas it is believed, for these and other reasons, to be ex- 
pedient for the state society, to form at this time, a new settle- 
ment on the coast of Africa; and whereas it has been represented 
to the society, that Cape Palmas and its neighborhood, offer com- 
mercial and agricultural facilities of the most important character, 
so as to make a settlement there desirable in every point of view; 
and whereas it is believed that a settlement thus formed by a so- 
ciety, whose avowed object is the ultimate extirpation of slavery, by 
proper and gradual eftbrls, addressed to the understanding and ex- 
perience of the people of the state, would be viewed with peculiar 
interest by all those w-lio advocated colonization on account of its 
tendencies toward liberty, and would receive that aid from them, 
which would ensure its prosperity and happiness; and whereas the 
society believe, that it is proper to use every means in their powder 
to raise Maryland to the rank of a free state of this union, not only 
on- account of the immediate benefit to herself, but for the sake of 
the illustration which she would then furnish of the effect of colo- 
nization in removing slavery. 

Therefore, he it resolved. That this society will forthwith es- 
tablish a settlement, at a suitable point on the coast of Africa, and 
will take immediate measures to procure, both within and without 
the state, the necessary pecuniary aid. 

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June 28, 133S. 

At a meeting of the Board of Managers, held at the Coloni2a- 
tion office, this evening, the following resolutions were discussed, 
amended, and unanimously adopted, with the accompanying pre- 
amble: 

Whereasy This society have heretofore resolved to establish a 
settlement at a suitable point on the coast of Africa, and to take 
measures to procure, both within and without the state, the neces- 
sary pecuniary aid: and whereas, Cape Palmas, or its vicinit}', has 
been recommended, as affording advantages for such a settlement 
as has been proposed, which justify this society in taking steps for 
its more particular exploration and purchase; and whereas, it is 
considered proper, that before proceeding to make the apphca- 
tion for assistance, contemplated by the resolutions above men- 
tioned, that the principles upon which it is intended to establish a 
new settlement should be distinctly stated, for the information of 
those who may be willing to lend their aid to the cause of coloni- 
zation, as advocated by this society — Therefore, be it resolved, as 
follows: 

1. That the Maryland State Society look forward to the extir- 
pation of slavery in Maryland, by proper and gradual efforts ad- 
dressed to the understanding and experience of the people of the 
state, as the primary object of their labors. 

2. That the society believe that this can best be accomplished, 
under existing circumstances, by advocating and assisting the 
cause of colonization. 

S. That the colonization of the people of color of the United 
States, on the coast of Africa, will not only promote their own 
temporal freedom and happiness, but tend to their moral improve- 
ment, and be the means of spreading the lights of civilization and 
the gospel in Africa. 

4. Whereas, It is desired that the settlement, about to be made 
by this society, should, as far as practicable, become a moral and 
temperate community, and as this is to be effected, in a great de- 
gree, by the character of the emigrants who leave America for a 
new home in Africa; and whereas, the sad experience of this coun- 
try has shewn the demoralizing effects of the use of ardent spirits; 
Be it resolved, That no emigrant shall be permitted to go from 
Maryland to a settlement of this society in Africa, who will not 
first bind himself or herself to abstain therefrom. 

5. That the principle of abstaining from the use of ardent spi- 
rits, except for medicinal purposes, be incorporated into the local 
government of the settlements of this society in Africa: so that no 
person shall be capable of holding office therein, who shall not first 
pledge himself to abstain from the use of, or traffic in ardent spirits, 
with the above exception. 

6. That this society believe, that in thus uniting the two great 
causes of colonization and temperance, the best interests of both 
will be promoted. Colonization will advance with a healthier step 



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to ultimate success; and temperance will find, in a nation founded 
upon its principles, an illustration that must be forever conclusive 
afi to its political benefits, and an example all-powerful in its influ- 
ences. 

7. That this society, while it will encourage, at all times, com- 
mercial communication with their settlements, so as to increase 
the facilities of emigration and colonization, yet it will make their 
agricultural character and improvement peculiarly the objects of 
solicitude. 

On motion, Resolved, That it be the duty of the agent or agents, 
who may be appointed by this society to procure the co-operalion 
cf the friends of colonization in other states, to invite them to be- 
come members of this society, in its corporate charter, under a 
pledge that they shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges 
therein, which are enjoyed by the members resident in the state of 
Maryland. 



Euctractfrom the minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Mana- 
gers of the American Colonization Societi/y October 7, 1833. 

Resolved, That this board trusts that the contemplated settle- 
ment on Cape Palmas, of Maryland colonists under the auspices of 
the Maryland State vSociety, will effectually promote the gTeat ob- 
ject of that Society in relation to their own state, and prove to our 
country at large, the great benefits of the colonization scheme, 
and contribute to the civilization and happiness of the African 
continent. 

Resolved further, That this board is wilhng that the Maryland 
society shall locate their emigrants (until prepared to make a set- 
tlement of their own) either at Monrovia or Grand Bassa, upon 
the same terms and conditions, 'and subject to the same regula- 
tions, that now exist as to their colonists settled at Monrovia, un- 
der the resolution of this board, passed 24th May last. 

A true copy from the minutes. 

P. R. FENDALL, Asnstant Secretary. 



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